• Movie Studio

  47 answers, most recent on 1/7/2023

  RE: sound issues
  @SSB Rewrite of my deleted post: AVIDemux will convert the 8 channels into stereo without re-encoding the video (ie fast): Open the file then Audio Menu>Select Track>tick track 1. On the left, at Audio Output, in the dropdown choose AAC
• Movie Studio

  41 answers, most recent on 6/20/2023

  RE: VHS made into DVD
  @Bigangbo This is a tough one! The lighting is playing havoc with the colours and exposure. Here's my first attempt. With Virtual Dub, I deinterlaced it to 59.94fps, adjusted the colours (too much green) and boosted the low and middle levels a bit
• Movie Studio

  64 answers, most recent on 11/3/2022

  RE: Anyone uploading the 2023 Movie Studio ?
  @me_again Get Neat Video, without a doubt. I didn't play with 2022 very much because I was so disgusted with it, particularly with the problems with Section and AVI handling. I upgraded to 2023 to do the right thing, but I can't really see much
• Movie Studio

  7 answers, most recent on 12/16/2022

  RE: Brightness/Contrast/Gamma Controls-Unwanted linkage
  @browj2 @CubeAce John, thanks for the video, but I disagree, they are linked. You move the mid and the low is changed. As you say: If the Gamma selections were linked, they would just be fighting with each other. That is exactly what is happening in
• Movie Studio

  7 answers, most recent on 12/16/2022

  Brightness/Contrast/Gamma Controls-Unwanted linkage
  Movie Studio 2023 v167 In the Brightness/Contrast effect, I note that the three Gamma controls, Lows/Mids/Highs seem to be linked. This defeats the purpose of having separate controls. For example, in the attached video, I set the Lows to 32, the
• Other products

  9 answers, most recent on 9/10/2022

  RE: Can corrupt (?) AVI videos be repaired?
  @mark-perry Could you put one of them up on Google Drive or Dropbox for us so we can have a look at them. There are options for fixing AVIs, depending on what type they are. I'd try opening one of them in Magix and if that's successful, export it as
• Movie Studio

  24 answers, most recent on 8/1/2022

  RE: Fail to adjust the frame rate for blue-ray disk (BD)
  @ericlnz But remember bitrate is measured as bits per second. The image size and number of frames per second don't come into it. That wasn't my point. My point was that that same bitrate is now spread over double the number of frames, which would
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  33 answers, most recent on 7/28/2022

  RE: VHS capture quality is very poor
  @CubeAce Ray, I doubt the crosshatching is the result of mixed-up field order. I deinterlaced the MPEG file in Virtual Dub and the crosshatching is still there, in every frame. For what it's worth, MPEG 2 is normally BFF. I don't know why Magix
• Movie Studio

  34 answers, most recent on 4/24/2023

  RE: stability creates confidence in the product
  @browj2 @Betovalle This is all I have on MEP. Version 2022 NEW FEATURES IN MOVIE EDIT PRO 2022! INFUSION Engine 3 MAGIX Travel Maps New controls Ultra-fast export with the INFUSION Engine 3 – 5x faster than real time Movie Edit Pro now runs using an
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  13 answers, most recent on 5/22/2022

  RE: Recording analogue video
  "TBC" is a time base corrector. It tidies up all the dodgy tape signals coming for the VCR. There are two types. The first is a line TBC. This corrects the wavy images (evidenced by the wobbly edges). High-end VCRs have Line TBCs incorporated. A lot
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  13 answers, most recent on 5/22/2022

  RE: Recording analogue video
  @cmclernon Got that. I think I'll be having nightmares tonight! 🙂 The first thing of note is the wobbly right edge. This is a classic characteristic of VHS. It's fixed by using a line TBC, either in the VCR itself, or an external TBC. Those wobbles
• Video Pro X

  31 answers, most recent on 4/28/2022

  RE: Export Options
  @johnebaker @Antoine-BBTV Of these settings the only one you could change is Coding quality though this should not be necessary - all export presets are optimised for best quality vs file size. John, my point is that file size may irrelevant in this
• Movie Studio

  12 answers, most recent on 4/2/2022

  Can't Open this MP4
  Here's the MP4, which I encoded with Virtual Dub's x264 encoder: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p4cAV8cQmSUSr1IphBgq-IsJYK729aRV/view?usp=sharing When I open it in MEP 2021 and VPX 12, I get black video. When I try to open it in MEP 2022, it
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 2/28/2022

  RE: Cleaning up source VHS video data, noise, frame slipping etc -
  @g4bee I will second Jeff's comments re noise reduction using Neat Video: it is amazing. I have experimented with denoising with Virtual Dub and seen some brilliant efforts of others using AVISynth, but for ease of use, Neat Video is the way to go.
• Other products

  28 answers, most recent on 12/19/2021

  RE: Windows Software to import Video with a Canopus ADVC110
  @Jeff-Reed Jeff, glad to be of help. Analogue video capturing and editing is a bit of black art! Life is oh so simple these days with cameras capturing digital video, just transfer the file and edit away. so I hope that will be enough for video
• Other products

  28 answers, most recent on 12/19/2021

  RE: Windows Software to import Video with a Canopus ADVC110
  @Jeff-Reed When using the Panasonic ES15, are you using the Es15 as a throughput device only (post VCR output), or are you actually recording a DVD, and subsequently exporting that DVD recording to your computer? Only as throughput/passthrough. The
• Other products

  28 answers, most recent on 12/19/2021

  RE: Windows Software to import Video with a Canopus ADVC110
  @johnebaker what sort of frame rates do you get on your exports when NV is used? You know the story of the hare and the tortoise... Except that, in this case, Ray's hare really does win the race! My system chugs along at around 5 frames per second
• Other products

  28 answers, most recent on 12/19/2021

  RE: Windows Software to import Video with a Canopus ADVC110
  Raw Captures done with a LG 990 VCR, Composite only, all captured and processed with MEP. The ADVC is DV-AVI, the others are captured in MPEG 2 at 10,000kbps. Note the very grainy/noisy ADVC ADVC with Neat video denoiser applied - chalk and
• Video Pro X

  26 answers, most recent on 12/14/2021

  RE: Export Uses Max of 20% CPU - 14 Minute Video Takes 7 Hours on Beefy PC
  In my years of experience, MEP is a dog when it comes to encoding times. It consistently takes 5 times longer to do an MP4 than VideoRedo and Virtual Dub. Those two thrash my CPU but most of the time MEP just chugs along like a slowcoach. Given
• Video Pro X

  26 answers, most recent on 12/14/2021

  RE: Export Uses Max of 20% CPU - 14 Minute Video Takes 7 Hours on Beefy PC
  In my years of experience, MEP is a dog when it comes to encoding times. It consistently takes 5 times longer to do an MP4 than VideoRedo and Virtual Dub. Those two thrash my CPU but most of the time MEP just chugs along like a slowcoach. Given
• Movie Studio

  32 answers, most recent on 12/7/2021

  RE: video capture issue, program or capture device
  Sorry, I couldn't see the wood for the trees. Is the problem only shown in the third video, and is the first a different capture? That would indicate a tape or VCR glitch (sometimes if you record the same portion of tape twice, you get different
• Movie Studio

  19 answers, most recent on 11/1/2021

  RE: VBR/CQ Comparisons
  Other encoders can be used via the "AVI" export. Here's x264 that I installed for use with Virtual Dub: Don't ask me how to use it! 😉
• Movie Studio

  18 answers, most recent on 10/3/2021

  RE: Lagarith Lossless Codec
  @jak.willis Video compression is a compromise with size. The more compressed a video is, the more data has been "thrown away" as well as more complex encoding with various types of frames, as Cubeace has described). LAGS is one of the so-called
• Movie Studio

  24 answers, most recent on 4/30/2021

  RE: Activation of New Blue Filters 5 Ultimate
  @bjtap Thanks Barry, The plugins are for things like Virtual Dub plugins. I think the process is failing right at the start for me and Graham; the activation code won't work so the installation, which gives you what you see, doesn't occur.